Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (HKWM) (in English: Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism) is a major international German-language encyclopedia of Marxism

Marxism

Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...

. It is published by the Berlin Institute of Critical Theory (InkriT), Germany. The editor-in-chief is Wolfgang Fritz Haug

Wolfgang Fritz Haug

Wolfgang Fritz Haug was from 1979 till his retirement in 2001 professor of philosophy at the Free University Berlin, where he had also studied romance languages and religious studies and taken his PhD .Haug coined the term commodity aestheticism...

. The work is planned to be published in 15 volumes, but many volumes are double. The first volume was published in 1994; in May 2010 was vol 7/II published and in June 2012 Band 8/I is to be published. The work is also available in electronic form and each article may be ordered separately as a pdf-file for immediately delivery.

Publishing plan

• Vol. 1: Abbau des Staates – Avantgarde (1994)
• Vol. 2: Bank – Dummheit in der Musik (1995)
• Vol. 3: Ebene – Extremismus (1997)
• Vol. 4: Fabel – Gegenmacht (1999)
• Vol. 5: Gegenöffentlichkeit – Hegemonialapparat (2001)
• Vol. 6/I: Hegemonie – Imperialismus (2004)
• Vol. 6/II: Imperium – Justiz (2004)
• Vol. 7/I: Kaderpartei – Klonen (2008)
• Vol. 7/II: Knechtschaft – Krise des Marxismus (2010)
• Vol. 8/I: Krisentheorie – Linie Luxemburg/Gramsci (2012)
• Vol. 8/II: links/rechts – Maschinerie
• Vol. 9: Massen – naturwüchsig
• Band 10: Negation der Negation – Phantasie
• Band 11: Philosophie – Regulationsthoerie
• Band 12: Reichtum – Sorelismus
• Band 13: Sowjet – Text
• Band 14: Theater – verstehen/erklären
• Band 15: Versuch – Zynismus